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Research type:

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Title (lead author) etc:

What is the best imaging strategy for acute stroke?  (Wardlaw) 192 pages, Volume 8, number 1
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Outputs in journals arising from this project

Project ref:

96/08/01 

Original project title:

What is the best imaging strategy for acute stroke? 

Chief Investigator:

Professor Joanna Wardlaw, Professor & Hon Consultant in Neuroradiology, Department of Clinical Neurosciences, University of Edinburgh

Project Website

http://www.cpa.ed.ac.uk/news/research 

Start Date:

February 1999.  

Publication date:

January 2004

Cost:

£140,803 

MeSH* index primary terms:

CEREBROVASCULAR-ACCIDENT Q-diagnosis; IMAGE-PROCESSING-COMPUTER-ASSISTED; EVIDENCE-BASED-MEDICINE; CEREBROVASCULAR-ACCIDENT Q-prevention-&-control (* = Medical Subject Headings)

MeSH* index secondary terms:

COST-BENEFIT-ANALYSIS; CLINICAL-TRIAL; HUMAN  (* = Medical Subject Headings)

NRR* number, if applicable:

N0484035661 (*National Research Register) 

Project Protocol:

Project protocol not available

Printed copies of this title despatched:

151 (Figures relate to the previous calendar month)

Downloads/Views of electronic version from website:

46248 (Figures are cumulative.) Last updated 8th July 2008.

URL of this page:

http://www.hta.ac.uk/1073

Outputs from this project

  • Keir, SL; Wardlaw, JM. Systematic review of diffusion and perfusion imaging in acute ischaemic stroke. Stroke 31:2723-2731.
  • Wardlaw, JM; Dennis, MS; Warlow, CP; Sandercock, PAG. Imaging appearance of the symptomatic perforating artery in patients with lacunar infarction: occlusion, or other vascular pathology?. Annals of Neurology Vol: 50, Pages: 208-215.
  • Guy, S; Wardlaw, JM. Who writes guidelines, and who should?. Clinical Radiology 2002;57: 891 - 897.
  • Keir, SL; Sandercock, PAG; Wardlaw, JM. Antithrombotic therapy in patients with any form of intracranial haemorrage: a systematic review of the available controlled studies. Cerebrovas Dis 2002;14: 197-206.
  • Keir, SL; Wardlaw, JM; Warlow, CP. Stroke epidemiology studies have underestimated the frequancy of Intracerebral haemorrhage. A systematic review of imaging in epidemiological studies. Journal of Neurology, 2002; 249: 1226-1231.
  • Wardlaw, JM; Keir, SL; Dennis, MS. The impact of delays in computed tomography of the brain on the accuracy of diagnosis and subsequent management in patients with minor stroke. Journal of Neurology, Neurosurgery & Psychiatry, 2003; 74: 77-81.
  • Keir, SL; Wardlaw, JM; Bastin, ME; Dennis, MS,. In which patients is diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging most useful in routine stroke care?. Journal of Neuroimaging 2004 Vol 14 Number 2 pages 118-122.
  • Wardlaw, JM; Seymour, J; Cairns, J; Keir, SL; Dennis, MS; Sandercock, PAG,. Immediate Computed Tomography Scanning of Acute Sroke Is Cost-Effective and Improves Quality of Life. Stroke Vol 35, Number 11, November 2004, pages 2477-2483.
  • Seymour, J; Cairns, J; Wilkie, A; Sandercock, P; Wardlaw, J. Geographical access to imaging facilities for stroke patients in Scotland.. Health Place 2006 Dec: 12(4): 617-30 Epub 2005 sep 29.
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